Quarterman

MR. CRANMER, of 1301 Kansas Ave., St. Cloud, died Tuesday, Dec. 10. He was a retired chief quarterman at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, N.J. Born in Lakehurst, he moved to Central Florida in 1986. A member of the First Presbyterian Church, Lakehurst, he was also a Mason and a Quarter Century member of the Wireless Association. He served four years in the Navy reserves. He witnessed the German dirigible Hindenburg burning at Lakehurst in 1937. Survivors: wife, Helen; son, Melvin Jr., Shellman, Ga.; two grandchildren.

Deputies say the man who shot and killed another in Orange County earlier this month has been found – in the county jail. Homicide investigators on Friday served a warrant charging Willie James Bush Jr., 32, with first-degree murder in the shooting death of 38-year-old Frederick Marcus Quarterman at a home on Baywood Avenue. Deputies were called to the home at about 6:06 p.m. on Oct. 8. When they arrived on scene, deputies said they found Quarterman, who had been shot.

PORT ORANGE - A Daytona Beach woman was injured Thursday morning when she drove the wrong way on Interstate 95, the Florida Highway Patrol said.Troopers said Delia Quarterman, 69, got onto I-95 at the Port Orange exit and was driving north in the southbound lanes. Dalina Marcus, 30, of Cape Canaveral, was traveling south on the interstate.Marcus swerved to try to avoid Quarterman's car, but they collided.Quarterman was treated and released from Halifax Medical Center in Daytona Beach. Marcus suffered minor injuries but did not have to go to the hospital, troopers said.

MELBOURNE - Melbourne police are investigating the death of a 53-year-old man who was shot during an argument late Saturday night, authorities said. Luscious Thomas Harper of Melbourne died from a single gunshot wound to the chest late Saturday night, Melbourne police said. Authorities said Harper and Willie Lee Quarterman, 50, of Melbourne were arguing at Race and Line streets in Melbourne when Harper was shot. Police later arrested Quarterman on a murder charge, police said. Harper died at Holmes Regional Medical Center, police said.

MELBOURNE - Melbourne police are investigating the death of a 53-year-old man who was shot during an argument late Saturday night, authorities said. Luscious Thomas Harper of Melbourne died from a single gunshot wound to the chest late Saturday night, Melbourne police said. Authorities said Harper and Willie Lee Quarterman, 50, of Melbourne were arguing at Race and Line streets in Melbourne when Harper was shot. Police later arrested Quarterman on a murder charge, police said. Harper died at Holmes Regional Medical Center, police said.

JAMES QUARTERMAN MOBLEY, 72, Route 1, Bushnell Road, Bushnell, died Friday. Born in Bushnell, he was a lifelong resident. He was a retired sanitation worker. He was a member of Mount Zion Primitive Baptist Church, Bushnell. He was an Army veteran. Survivors: mother, Bertha, Clearwater; brothers, Horace Quarterman, Orlando, Marvin, Bushnell; sisters, Bertha Dorsey, Annie Pearl Glenn, both of Clearwater. Postell-Eastside Funeral Home, Leesburg.

A 20-year veteran Orange County corrections officer was arrested Friday and charged with sexual battery on a female inmate at the county jail. Herbert Quarterman, 47, was booked at the jail on one felony count of sexual battery by a law-enforcement officer. Quarterman, who has no disciplinary history, was placed on administrative leave with pay pending an internal investigation. According to an Orange County sheriff's report, Quarterman forced the woman to perform oral sex on him at about 8:30 a.m. Thursday at the jail's central booking office.

By Pedro Ruz Gutierrez and Henry Pierson Curtis of The Sentinel Staff, December 19, 2000

Up to $1 million in cash and 110 pounds of cocaine changed hands during the past five months at a Pine Hills home where four men shot and killed a single mother of five Sunday night, federal prosecutors allege. Laquanda Quarterman, 24, died of a gunshot wound to the face at about 11:45 p.m. when four men broke into her home west of Orlando and began ransacking it in a search for what authorities suspect were drugs. Federal agents say the pink, one-story house, 4005 Robbins Ave., was purchased with drug money by one-time boyfriend Darrell Williams, the father of two of her children.

AUGUSTA F. ROGERS, 86, 725 W. Jackson St., Orlando, died Thursday. Born in Fort Gaines, Ga., she moved to Orlando from there in 1919. She was a retired schoolteacher. She was a member of Mount Olive AME Church, Orlando. Survivors: niece, Loretta Osby, Orlando; nephew, Richard Quarterman, Orlando, John Brunson, Daytona Beach. Brinson's Funeral Home, Orlando.

Even as cyberspace is being touted as the hippest place to congregate since the original Woodstock, some experts now contend that estimates of the number of people using the Internet computer networks may be grossly exaggerated.Some network experts say the most commonly cited numbers - 20 million to 30 million users worldwide - may be many times too high.''Suppose there were really only 2 million or 3 million,'' said John Quarterman, a highly regarded Internet demographer.The latest comprehensive survey that attempts to estimate the Internet's reach discovered more than 3.2 million ''host'' computers capable of communicating directly with other computers on the Internet.

A 20-year veteran Orange County corrections officer was arrested Friday and charged with sexual battery on a female inmate at the county jail. Herbert Quarterman, 47, was booked at the jail on one felony count of sexual battery by a law-enforcement officer. Quarterman, who has no disciplinary history, was placed on administrative leave with pay pending an internal investigation. According to an Orange County sheriff's report, Quarterman forced the woman to perform oral sex on him at about 8:30 a.m. Thursday at the jail's central booking office.

By Pedro Ruz Gutierrez and Henry Pierson Curtis of The Sentinel Staff, December 19, 2000

Up to $1 million in cash and 110 pounds of cocaine changed hands during the past five months at a Pine Hills home where four men shot and killed a single mother of five Sunday night, federal prosecutors allege. Laquanda Quarterman, 24, died of a gunshot wound to the face at about 11:45 p.m. when four men broke into her home west of Orlando and began ransacking it in a search for what authorities suspect were drugs. Federal agents say the pink, one-story house, 4005 Robbins Ave., was purchased with drug money by one-time boyfriend Darrell Williams, the father of two of her children.

Albertha Quarterman, a grandmother, was on a roll as she sat in an honors American history class at Apopka High School.The topic: pre-Civil War days.``Was there any manufacturing to speak of in the South?'' asked teacher Pam Montague. ``No,'' Quarterman said correctly.What was Henry Clay's job before running in the presidential election of 1824?``Speaker of the House,'' Quarterman answered confidently and, again, correctly.And what job did Clay land for supporting victorious candidate John Quincy Adams after Clay lost out?

PORT ORANGE - A Daytona Beach woman was injured Thursday morning when she drove the wrong way on Interstate 95, the Florida Highway Patrol said.Troopers said Delia Quarterman, 69, got onto I-95 at the Port Orange exit and was driving north in the southbound lanes. Dalina Marcus, 30, of Cape Canaveral, was traveling south on the interstate.Marcus swerved to try to avoid Quarterman's car, but they collided.Quarterman was treated and released from Halifax Medical Center in Daytona Beach. Marcus suffered minor injuries but did not have to go to the hospital, troopers said.

Robert Taylor worked hard to build up his grocery business while he worked to improve his community.The Apopka man started Taylor's General Grocery Store on Clarcona Road in the 1940s and ran the store for more than 30 years.Taylor, 89, died Wednesday of natural causes, said his daughter, Albertha Quarterman of Orlando. His 90th birthday would have been Thursday.``He'd get up before 5 in the morning and work till late at night,'' said Quarterman.Quarterman said she helped her parents out by sweeping around the store and later by waiting on customers at their little country store that sold meat, vegetables and everyday items.

A hero of the civil rights movement marches still, but only across clean, quiet grounds, through hallways of vacant stares and dreamy, narcotic smiles.In what history refers to as the Albany Movement, an 18-year-old college freshman named Ola Mae Quarterman defied the racism that gripped southern Georgia in 1962. When a driver ordered her to the back of a bus, she told him, ''I'll sit where I want.'' A judge gave her 30 days.Heroes are made this way. The legacy of Rosa Parks, a living legend of the civil rights movement after the 1955 Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott, was born in such a way.But Quarterman's story did not ring out from Albany, which was in many ways a testing ground for the nonviolent strategies that would prove so effective in Birmingham, Ala., and elsewhere.

An Army sergeant recently transferred from Texas knew she might see a moose in Alaska, but she didn't expect to get such a close look. Sgt. 1st Class Marie Quarterman was driving the Richardson Highway earlier this month when a moose cow stepped in front of her car. ''I tried to drive around her but couldn't,'' she said. ''After I hit her she flipped up and came through the windshield butt first. Her hind legs were inside the car.'' Quarterman was not injured. Trooper Burke Waldron tried everything he could think of to get the moose to climb out of the car, but finally decided he had to shoot it.

Robert Taylor worked hard to build up his grocery business while he worked to improve his community.The Apopka man started Taylor's General Grocery Store on Clarcona Road in the 1940s and ran the store for more than 30 years.Taylor, 89, died Wednesday of natural causes, said his daughter, Albertha Quarterman of Orlando. His 90th birthday would have been Thursday.``He'd get up before 5 in the morning and work till late at night,'' said Quarterman.Quarterman said she helped her parents out by sweeping around the store and later by waiting on customers at their little country store that sold meat, vegetables and everyday items.

Even as cyberspace is being touted as the hippest place to congregate since the original Woodstock, some experts now contend that estimates of the number of people using the Internet computer networks may be grossly exaggerated.Some network experts say the most commonly cited numbers - 20 million to 30 million users worldwide - may be many times too high.''Suppose there were really only 2 million or 3 million,'' said John Quarterman, a highly regarded Internet demographer.The latest comprehensive survey that attempts to estimate the Internet's reach discovered more than 3.2 million ''host'' computers capable of communicating directly with other computers on the Internet.

MR. CRANMER, of 1301 Kansas Ave., St. Cloud, died Tuesday, Dec. 10. He was a retired chief quarterman at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, N.J. Born in Lakehurst, he moved to Central Florida in 1986. A member of the First Presbyterian Church, Lakehurst, he was also a Mason and a Quarter Century member of the Wireless Association. He served four years in the Navy reserves. He witnessed the German dirigible Hindenburg burning at Lakehurst in 1937. Survivors: wife, Helen; son, Melvin Jr., Shellman, Ga.; two grandchildren.